Re: How to set line-width to width of paper

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 16:58 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I have just started using
> >
> > \override #'(line-width . n)
> >
> > for text markup, and I want the value n to be chosen so as to work out
> > as the distance between the margins of the paper I'm printing on.
> 
> Uh, that's the default, isn't it?

Yes, it does seem so, I was thinking it had gotten upset by previous
stuff, embedded postscript and such, but now I see it was just my
handling (or mangling) of the \markup {} syntax that was causing text to
flow over the left margin.

Thanks for the response,

Richard